Susteenable Development: Teens are the center of Sustainable Development

Since the beginning of the time that the world had experienced and suffered from the evil impacts of its machineries and technologies, leaders around the world are aiming at a wider vision that is utilizing resources for the development not only for the present but also for the development in the future. The idea of development without the expense of the environment was born - Sustainable Development. Governments, agencies, and other institutions and even individuals of the world worried about the condition of the earth and all inhabitants living on it is at risk. Some resources were rapidly diminishing with the latest and high technologies that the world has. Yet, not everyone acts to pursue such change.

Governments are the primordial operator in this activity together with some organizations and units of society. The group of scientists with Former Vice-President Al Gore in the United States is informing everyone to be aware with the Global Warming which is also a Global Warning through the great and comprehensive documentary film – Inconvenient Truth. It was highlighted the passive reaction of the majority to the fact-claim of many scientist concerning Global Warming. That people are still pursuing development at the expense of environment. Massive industrialization especially from developing countries that contribute much amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and creating a warmer environment, melting of ice caps in polar regions, climate change, etc. The development that is unsustainable.

Along with the passive reactors on sustainable development are the teens or young individuals. It can not be argued that teens are usually not really active in this matter because they don’t like serous matters. A friend of mine, a parish priest shared to me his disgust feeling against his fellow priest. His fellow priests are always reluctant to deal with the youth in their parishes because they said that youth are problematic and hard to manage.

Youth occupies the majority of the population in the world as reports had said. This means ignoring their active participation is waste of great resources. Thus, teens should be promoted and activated in order to help the course of sustainable development. They are important actors of change. It is engraved in the term sustainable “susteenable” development. Further, teens are capable of pursuing sustainable development.

The purpose of sustainable development is to provide well environment for the future generations. Teens or youth are one of the generations referred by this. Teens are the future leaders of the world. They are the next protector and developer of the world. But how could they do it if they were not yet motivated?

Thus, the era of recognizing the role of teens has come. There is a need to activate the teens to get involve in the solving problems and pursuing sustainable development.